It’s the game that’s traditionally closest to what a regular season game will be. The starters will likely play a full half and likely into the 3rd Quarter. It’s the first game the Dolphins will be playing at Sun Life Stadium after an offseason of renovations. It’s one more game closer to a game that matters.

This is what I’ve been saying for yrs, do it the Brady way, just try to get positive plays on every down, making the next down a little easier.

Another thing positive plays do is frustrate the D, so instead of that pass rusher thinking he’s actually doing something the short passes start to get him thinking short pass and jump up and try to knock it down, instead of rushing the passer.

I wonder what type of people previewed it before it went live for the first time? The first one was bad enough, but why would you let them do a second one? Because people are talking about it, it doesn’t matter to them if you like it or not, what matters is they are getting pub.

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After studying the tape, three #Dolphins’ sacks on #Falcons QB Matt Ryan Sat. came on four-man rushes. That is impressive by MIA’s d-line.
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This will make blitzing lights out for Marsha & other non-mobile QB’s! 😉

After setting a Dolphins rookie record with 84 receptions in 2014, he heads into the 2015 season as a key member of a new-look receiving corps.

“I’ve always been real consistent with catching the football,” Landry said. “I can’t give enough credit to (Ryan) Tannehill and Coach (Bill) Lazor for putting me in those positions, but 84 catches that’s just the floor for me. It’s just the floor for me and there’s nowhere (to go) but up. So I’m excited to see what this year brings, excited to see how far we can go as a Dolphins organization, as a team, as a group.”

I love the way Lazor uses our backs out of the backfield in space. That’s what the spread offense will do for you. It creates a lot of open space for skill players to run and we have a lot of them. Wait until we add Parker to the mix and he gives us a tall rangy perimeter receiver. I think we’ll also use him on deep crossing routes and fades inside the redzone.

Landry will line up all over the place and then he takes off running his crisp routes with no lull in his speed using his great hands and determination to get as many yards as possible. The guy is so motivated to be great. I see him catching 100 passes as well and getting his YPCA up from 9.0 to the 12-13 range this year.

Yes but I don’t think a sophomore slump would ever happen with this guy the way he works. He’ll get better every year. I wouldn’t be negative on Beckham though, that guy is legit as well. He’s faster than Landry and has more down field ability while Landry is a guy who will find the soft spots in coverage and get chunk yards over and over to sustain our drives and control the game. When teams do pay more attention to him because he’s killing them all game then RT will just find the other open receivers and we’ll be like a machine.

What I love most about Landry is he catches the ball with his hands so smoothly and then IMMEDIATELY get’s positive yards after the catch. The ball is secured and he is moving up field in a instant. He has very shifty hips. He just keeps rolling.

He’s a great football player. He was known for his blocking at LSU. He also had some great hits/blocks playing STs.

Remember when Wallace quit in the Jets game while defenders were hitting Williams, Landry comes from further away and starts trying to block guys to get them off of Williams while Asshole walks off. That told us a whole lot about the two of them and why one is the center piece of the offense and the other one is in Minnesota.

I love reading this. We haven’t done anything yet. It’s all about sustaining good defense through entire games and into the last quarter of the season and beyond. Suh gets it and this is EXACTLY what you want your leader on defense to say and do.

This guy has been everything he was advertised to be. I thought Son was guilty of hyperbolic statements in his praise of Suh and what he would mean to this team but I now realize he was dead on balls accurate, everything is different now that Suh is here.

tim,
to be fair I’m gonna leave it locked. I’ve been saying for a few days that its gonna be locked today at noon. If you want any addition to your roster because its not 53 then put them in the blog today and I’ll add them for you.

Okay cool. I still don’t know why it has to be locked today before the cut to 75. It gives everyone a better idea on who’s making the team. There will still be 22 cuts after that to get to 53. I think it’s too early.

I was getting the Game Day blog ready for Thursday and I see that CBS Sports is indicating our game will be live on NFL network rather than the Eagles/Jets game. My DirecTV schedule hasn’t changed. Has anyone else heard anything about our game being shown live on NFL network Thursday?

I think they OL will get better as the year goes on if they stay relatively healthy. It takes time for young players to develop and when you’re relying on multiple ones on one unit especially the OL which is about chemistry, you have to be patient. 2013 really fucked us and we had to overhaul it for the most part.

27/23. I go by talent, not even steven. Also STs. On offense you usually dress just 7 OL and roll with your core skill guys. On defense you rotate many more DL and DBs. LBs are usually good STs coverage guys.

I kept an extra OL because of Albert. When he’s ready to go we’ll probably release one and go with 9.

I went back and watched the phins game on dvr and DT didn’t look awful a LT either but definitely looks better at OG. Pretty much everyone seemed off their game, even James. Turner still graded out worse by my observation but he is a work in progress. Pouncey looked pretty good aside from right after he came back in he looked like he was playing a little gingerly

To me that’s the best 3 like the best 5 OL. McCain isn’t ready to be a starting OLB. He’ll be a hybrid defender in our front 7. He’s probably more aggressive than instinctive so you can’t have him making mistakes in coverage.

Very possible. Paysinger is a good STs player though and one of the reason we signed him. That’s why I kept 8 LBs including Vigil and Hull. They are going to play a lot on STs especially coverage units.

I did that over a 6th WR because I don’t see that guy ever playing unless we have injuries and are they so good we couldn’t find a guy of equal talent off the street?

I can see Landry being top heavy as the focus of our ball control offense along with the backs and the running game. So Landry could have a 100 catch season where all the others fall in the 30-50 give or take range. The offense is setup to find the open guy. I think Landry and Cameron will exploit the spread field and RT is a good middle of the field passer. 5-20 all day and then boom, someone makes a big play. 🙂

Not to be disagreeable, but it seems very possible that Landry has fewer catches this year even though he is a better player because of all the talent surrounding him.
… although he should get more yards per catch …

That’s what I thought too, then I started watching the preseason and I don’t think so any longer, even though the 3 new comers haven’t really been a part of the offense in the preseason.

Out of every 10 passes he throws 3 should go Landry’s way, that should give him about 9 per game. If someone is hot they may get a little more action, but at the end of the day RT likes throwing short and Landry is his security blanket.

Steve, I don’t think it’s a given that Tanny ‘just’ likes to throw short passes. That’s the way this offense is designed and only what his patchwork OL has allowed him.
Ryan likes to chuck it deep too, I’ve seen it. But he’s wisely not going to do it without knowing the play has a decent chance of success.

When he’s got time and an open target of course he’s going to throw deep, but he settles a lot on the short pass, which is a checkdown, not a design of the offense.

If you read my post last night where I compared him to Brady, making a positive play (short pass) is important, and more important than taking a risk somewhere else down the field, you’d realize I’m not bashing him.

I have no problem at all with the short passes he’s thrown in preseason, with the exception of the 3rd and long pass he threw short about 3 yrds downfield that had no chance of making a 1st down, when he had time to find someone else.

With that said, the only time it isn’t ok to throw short is on 3rd down and long, when you have time. This translates to I give up on this drive lets punt. If our D is as good as advertised in the preseason, by all means throw it short and punt (given the situation of course, so if we’re down 14 with 5 minutes to go it isn’t ok).

Steve, no I didn’t think you were bashing Tannehill. I’m in agreement, and I too hate to see a pass inside the 1st down marker on 3rd and long, but sometimes that’s all ya got.
On 3rd and long the Defense knows you’re throwing and they send a heavy rush package at ya.
Until our OL, TE’s & RB’s gwet better at picking up everyone and providing more time, then we’ll see this more than we care.
Give Tanny time, or any QB, then they become real dangerous down field.
I like that Tanny seems much more comfortable in year 2 of Lazor’s offense. He’s smooth, making usually good quick decisions as the game has slowed down for him.

TO FFR and all others who can get Tampa TV stations: every Bucs preseason game has been televised so far here in Tampa Bay so I’d expect the Bucs at Fins game Thursday night also will be televised here in the greater bay area. And speaking of the Yucs, if Miami’s back-up players get their asses kicked by Tampa Bay, I’l be pissed!! The Buccaners are one sorry-assed football team!!

i saw that. even though there was all this screaming how bold snyder was for making the trade and what a commitment to winning he had unlike ross, that has to go down as one of the worst trades in football history for what they gave up for rgbust

And topped off by RGIII’s comment about him being the best QB in the NFL, even though he just said he has to think of himself in that manner to perform well. The perception around was he said he was the best QB, so they’ll continue to make him look like an ass tomorrow on all the talk radio shows.

Naples
I had bad problems with my TV and internet last night, missed most of the 2nd half and didnt get back on till this morning…
Way up here we got Walloped by a torrential storm (2.30in) and then another 2.2 just this evening.

I hate this part of the preseason. For these guys getting cut, it may be the end of their NFL dream. Some might go to another team, or end up on a practice squad, but there’s only so many spots to go around. Kind of sad.

At least they can say they were on a camp roster. The ones that don’t get picked up by another team or put on a practice squad just have to work harder, look at Cam Wake, it isn’t over until they give up. You’re defined by what you do after failure, not before, and it’s only failure if you give up.

Remember TEs are required to do more than just be receivers and make one big play in the PS. They serve as TE, H-Back and FB and then STs if you’re a #3. If you’re lacking in multiple areas in those responsibilities you’re not worthy of the 53. What Robinson is now going to be the focus of the offense? LOL

Tim Do you really think we will only play two TEs the whole year?; even without injuries we would need to sub some time or other. I think Semisch is intriguing at 6’8 for a Red Zone jump ball target, but he is raw and could go on the PS without much risk of getting poached.

SteveCCNV; Actualy, the Thursday game DOES have plenty of relevance to the team, ESPECIALLY in the case of punting and placekicking jobs, as well as quite a few other jobs on the team that are still up for grabs. And I DO HOPE the first teamers play at least one or two series for the benefit of season ticket holders who are forced to pay regular season prices for exhibition contests. Personally, I won’t be there. In fact I’ve only been to ONE exhibition game since 1989.